ATSC 3.0 for broadcasters
ATSC 3.0 BEST CDN
Launch Broadcast-Enabled Streaming Television (BEST) channels with minimal lighthouse bandwidth, resilient broadband delivery, real-time monitoring and viewership analytics.
What is BEST?
BEST — Broadcast-Enabled Streaming Television — combines ATSC 3.0 broadcast delivery with broadband content delivery, allowing additional television services to reach compatible ATSC 3.0 receivers without requiring the full video bitrate to be carried in the broadcast lighthouse.
AVSend is the Silicondust CDN built for delivering ATSC 3.0 BEST services.
Broadcast-enabled. Broadband-delivered.
BEST uses the ATSC 3.0 broadcast and broadband paths together. The broadcast path provides the DASH manifest while AVSend delivers the video through broadband.
Broadcast path
- ATSC 3.0 station
- DASH manifestCarried in the ATSC 3.0 broadcast signal
Broadband path
- Encoder
- AVSend CDN
- VideoDelivered over broadband, not over RF
ATSC 3.0 television
Receives the manifest by broadcast and the video by broadband.
Additional services can be made available to ATSC 3.0 televisions while consuming minimal lighthouse bandwidth.
More services from limited broadcast capacity
ATSC 3.0 BEST allows broadcasters to make additional channels available through the ATSC 3.0 television experience while using broadband for video delivery.
More channel capacity
Make additional services available without carrying the complete video stream in the lighthouse.
Broadcast + broadband
Use ATSC 3.0 broadcast delivery and broadband content delivery as one television service.
Built for broadcast operations
AVSend combines delivery, monitoring, analytics and geographic controls in a system designed specifically for ATSC 3.0 broadcasters.
24/7 health portal
Know what is happening from encoder to receiver
The AVSend health portal provides continuous visibility into the systems involved in delivering a BEST service, with end-to-end health monitoring of the CDN and 24/7 portal access for your team.
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Encoder
Encoder health monitoring for every encoder feeding the service.
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Delivery
Monitor content delivery through the AVSend CDN.
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Broadcast
Monitor the broadcast side of the service.
Automatic failover supports redundant encoder and upload configurations.
See what viewers are watching
AVSend provides real-time viewing information through an interactive broadcaster portal.
Channel analytics
Understand viewing by channel.
Program analytics
Measure program viewing and trends.
Ad analytics
Advertising reports with viewership, so you can give advertising partners insight into their campaigns.
Real-time viewership information.
Redundant from the encoder forward
- AVSend supports dual-redundant encoders with dual-redundant WebDAV uploads from each encoder.
- Encoder health monitoring enables automatic failover.
- Content can be uploaded through the public internet or through direct peering.
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Encoder A
- WebDAV upload A
- WebDAV upload B
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Encoder B
- WebDAV upload A
- WebDAV upload B
AVSend CDNIngest over the internet or direct peering
Works with established broadcast encoders
AVSend integrates with these encoders:
- Harmonic XOS
- Ateme TitanLive
- Synamedia vDCM
Keep BEST delivery within the intended market
The DASH manifest is delivered through the ATSC 3.0 broadcast signal rather than through the AVSend broadband CDN.
Built into BEST delivery
- The DASH manifest serves as the first layer of in-DMA protection, delivered only by broadcast.
- AVSend blocks broadband delivery of the manifest.
Additional DMA enforcement available
- IP location validation
- Cloud and VPN blocking
- ASN allow/block management: ASN controls can allow or block IP ranges associated with specific organizations.
Tell viewers what went wrong
AVSend can present customizable video messages when a viewer cannot receive a service, including out-of-region, VPN or other delivery errors.
Viewers see a message you control instead of an unexplained playback failure.
Infrastructure deployed for the market
- Deployment
- Optimized for each DMA
- Servers
- 100 Gbps servers
- Network
- High-speed network infrastructure
- Ingest
- Upload over the internet or direct peering
One platform for ATSC 3.0 BEST delivery
- Encode
- Ingest
- Deliver
- Monitor
- Measure
AVSend brings BEST delivery, redundancy, operational monitoring, geographic controls and viewership analytics together in one broadcaster-facing service.
Broadcast system integration
Silicondust works with Heartland Video Systems for broadcaster system integration and deployment.
- Heartland Video Systems, Inc.
1311 Pilgrim Road
Plymouth, WI 53073 - 920 893-4204
- www.hvs-inc.com
Planning an ATSC 3.0 BEST service?
Talk with Silicondust about your channels, encoder configuration, DMA and delivery requirements.